Evaluation of the inhibition of culturable <i>Enterococcus faecium</i>, <i>Escherichia coli</i>, or <i>Aeromonas hydrophilia</i> by an existing drinking water biofilm
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Biofilms in potable water distribution systems consist of microorganisms that can survive and grow under the low nutrient concentrations commonly found within water distribution systems. This experiment evaluated the ability of an existing biofilm to reduce the number of introduced microorganisms adhered to materials in an aquatic environment. Ductile iron biofilm sampling coupons were separated into two groups, one had existing biofilm (pre-colonized) and the second group of coupons had no biofilm present (control). Biofilm sampling coupons were challenged by suspensions of individual study organisms consisting of Enterococcus faecium , Escherichia coli , or Aeromonas hydrophilia , and a sterile solution (control). Densities of culturable study organisms on control coupons were compared to densities of these same culturable organisms on biofilm pre-colonized coupons. Results demonstrate that drinking water distribution systems may be vulnerable to the development of potentially pathogenic bacteria in biofilm when lines are initially placed in service. Conclusions are that existing biofilm may serve as a barrier to introduced study organisms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".